Jan Andruszewski – Galicia’s forgotten writer. A reconnaissance

Abstract

The article presents the biography of Jan Andruszewski – a physician, social activist, and writer – and his literary works, which were created in the first three decades of the 20th century. He was a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, holding a medical degree, and worked in Zakopane, Lviv, Kosów, and Smolino. The shaping of his literary creativity was influenced by new artistic and aesthetic currents at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the most important artistic circles of the Young Poland movement, with which he was associated during his studies and professional career in Kraków, Zakopane, and Lviv. He mainly wrote short narrative forms such as stories, novellas, and sketches, but also wrote a novel and co-authored two plays.